Solidwool to provide seating at the upcoming wastED pop-up at Selfridges

Selfridges London, will partner with Dan Barber and the team behind New York's internationally acclaimed Blue Hill restaurants to bring their ground-breaking food waste pop-up, wastED, to London for the first time.

Opening on the 24th February, they are taking up residence on Selfridge London's iconic rooftop for a month long pop-up.

The aim is to celebrate what chefs do every day on their menus (and traditional food cultures have done for thousands of years): creating something delicious out of the ignored or un-coveted and encouraging new applications for what we now all too commonly refer to as food waste.

The menu will feature ingredients such as cabbage cores, cover-crop sprouts and waste-fed pigs and offer reinterpretations of a few iconic British dishes.

For those booking the private dining area, they will be able to enjoy their meal seated on our finest Hembury Chairs made with under valued 'waste' Herdwick wool. 

The restaurant will be open for lunch, dinner and afternoon tea. The menu will feature small plates to share, all price at £15. The not-so-customary afternoon tea will begin at £32.

When: 24th February - 2nd April

More information can be found at www.wastEDlondon.com.

A landmark moment.

Ring the bell.

This week, we shipped Hembury Chair number 100.

It’s currently on it’s way across the Atlantic to a lucky owner called Amy.

It’s a landmark moment for us.

A century of chairs.

One hundred seats for one hundred bottoms.

Each of these chairs is unique and made with an undervalued wool from the Lake District. The wool of the iconic Herdwick sheep.

It’s taken us just over a year to sell 100 chairs. And boy, have we learnt a lot during that time.

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As makers, the objects we create embody our ideas and beliefs. Our products capture a moment in time.

For us, the Hembury Chair was our way of showcasing Solidwool. It gave the material a voice, a way of telling our story and the hope we had for the material.

It’s hard to say how many we will make of this first chair, but it’s almost certain that by this time next year the mould, and the design as it stands today, will no longer be in service.

In order to keep moving forward, we want to develop the material and our manufacturing processes. We want to build a small, empowered team of makers at the Solidwool factory. This will require a step up in production capabilities all round.

Our goal is to create a 100% natural wool composite. And by doing this, bring you the story of other wool's that are undervalued. To continue creating products which inspire and are made to cherish.

Your dreams should scare you after all.

What this means though is that one day we’ll be able to look back on this first Solidwool chair and know that only a few hundred people were lucky enough to own one.

Craft is the new luxury.

So if you want to get yourself a piece of Solidwool history, then you had better be quick.

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"A chair is the first thing you need when you don't really need anything"

- Ralph Caplan, American Design Critic

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SHOP | The Hembury Chair